Reading Materials

A Collection of Tutorials and Useful Information

Tutorials on C++, Gdb, etc.
Assemblers, Linkers and the SPIM simulator.
This provides excellent information on the MIPS hardware/software interface. Including stack frames, procedure calls, exceptions, interrupts, etc.
An Introduction to Programming with Threads, by Andrew Birrell
Some C background information useful for the assignments.

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
This is not a required text but it is a good source for readings on material covered in class. The parts of this book are available online for free, you can get an e-copy for about $10 or hard copies for a good price. The links included below point to the individual chapters.
NOTE: Some of the API's used in this text are different from those used in our class but it should usually be pretty easy to translate between the two.
Operating System Concepts, 8th edition
Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne (John Wiley and Sons)
This was formerly used as a textbook for this course. Although we are no longer using it, we've left the Silberschatz chapter references in the table for the benefit of those who may have copies of that text. Unless you already have a copy of the Silberschatz text, we recommend Three Easy Pieces.

Lecture notes are required for this course.

Lecture notes for sections 001 and 002 (Kevin Lanctot) will be posted on Learn before each lecture.

Lecture notes for section 003 (Lesley Istead) are below.

Subject	Silberschatz	Three Easy Pieces	2up Notes	1up Notes
Introduction; Background and Overview	Chapters 1-2	Intro	2-up	1-up
Threads	Chapter 4	Dialogue Intro Threads	2-up	1-up
Synchronization	Chapters 3 (3.4.1), 6 and 7	Locks Lock Use CV's Semaphores Bugs Summary Dialogue	2-up	1-up
Processes, The Kernel, and System Calls	Chapters 2 (2.3, 2.4) and 3 (3.1-3.3)	Dialogue Processes Process API Context Switch & Sys Calls	2-up	1-up
Virtual Memory	Chapters 8,9	Address Spaces Memory API Address Translation Segmentation Free Space Mgmt Paging TLBs Smaller Page Tables Replacement/Swapping Replacement Algorithms	2-up	1-up
Scheduling	Chapter 5	Scheduling MLFQ Multiple CPUs	2-up	1-up
Devices and I/O	Chapters 12 and 13	I/O Devices Hard Disk Drives	2-up	1-up
File Systems	Chapters 10 and 11 (excluding 11.8, 11.9)	Files and Directories File System Implementation FSCK & Journaling	2-up	1-up
Virtual Machines		New!	2-up	1-up

Note: The columns "Silberschatz" and "Three Easy Pieces" in the table above refer to chapters from the suggested textbooks.